Just excellent! Nice to see the matched set of SoCred pushers, with 757 and 762 looking to have been repainted recently. And to have all the non lead Locotrol SD40-2s from the first order on one train is quite the catch. Love the different sounds of the 251 and 645 working on the head end power. Great shots too. Thanks for posting a reminder of how great this railway used to be at the time. If you're ever going to offer a DVD of your BCR footage, I would gladly purchase a copy.
You know, I used to own 1/4,000,000th of a railway. My parts were the crossing gate at Porteau Cove, two wheel bearings on a speeder, the coupler knuckle on a woodchip hopper, a starter motor in a BUDD car and the soap dispenser in an office bathroom at the North Van yard. But I was a citizen of British Columbia and that railway belonged to me.
I still remember as a kid taking Union Steamships to the Squamish pier and catching the passenger to D'Arcy before the rail was completed connecting North Vancouver to Squamish.
Now this is chew chew train service !! I always liked the classics I like the colors of this chew chew train service British Colombia has always been a nice place !!
First seeing a speeder and then a caboose made me remember more interesting times for rail. When I was growing up in NS we still had full freight and passenger service to the Annapolis Valley. The Dominion Atlantic Railway. It is mostly multi use pathway now, which is also nice.
That trailing jimmy sounds like its dead! That MLW C-630 717 seems to be doing all the head end work. Okay can hear it working after picking up the orders SB out of Squamish.
@@bcrail2259 ---But they missed putting on the yellow of the setting sun which is the most prominent part of that B.C. Flag. Myself, I think the rail colour scheme was some sort of ulterior attempt to align BC Rail with American Railroads for political and economic purposes, by stupid politicians who don't know what Canada or even British Columbia is, which is NOT politically, socially,or culturally American. To me it was a treasonous colour scheme.
Phenomenal footage of one of my personal favorite Railroads! I have a question how long was the SB freight chased from D'Arcy with the #717 and how long was the Extra with #721?
@@fmnut Thank you and no worries! And I must say your shot of the #721 N into Squamish was my personal favorite shot of the film. #721s Sandcast K5H is absolutely beautiful.
I am making a video series called engines of bc rail. you have some great shots for some episodes I have planned. would I be able to download this video and use it in my video? credit will be given in the description.
lightnindash 3804 The Canadian railroads do not make the horns. They are made by a supplier same as the US. They sound different than US models due to Canadian government regulations that require horns to sound a minor chord. This is so moose are not attracted to the sound. In the early days of air horns they had several bad derailments from hitting moose.
+MAINY RYAN The two principal yards on BCR were Prince George and North Vancouver. Squamish was one of the smaller yards as far as freight handling was concerned, but it was the site of their main shops.
+fmnut another train questions if a load from vancouver needs to go to Prince George does the train from vancouver take it to prince george or do they drop it of at a point another train takes it up
+MAINY RYAN back in BC Rail days there were 2 daily thru Freights each way between PG and North Vancouver making pickups and set outs enroute. It would be handled in one of those.
+MAINY RYAN There are pickups and setouts on the way, but, yes, they go from Van to PG. There aren't any branches to the main line until you get north of PG.
Train Orders. Written authority to move over the next section of line. Cannot be given until line is known to be clear. It's the way trains were protected before signals came into use. Now unsignaled lines are run with orders given by radio called Track Warrants. BC Rail switched to Warrants later in 1990.
BC Rail was absorbed operationally in 2004 by CN. Even its newest locos are nearing the end of their design lifespans. Even if they get rebuilt (unlikely) they'll be in CN livery.
